Synodic month length 29.35 days

Length of current 634 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer than next lunation 635 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 2 May 2051 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠6.6°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠6.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠23.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before perigee

8 days after point of apogee on 23 April 2051 at 15:59 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 9 May 2051 at 01:26 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 378 538 km

Moon after ascending node

6 days after its ascending node on 25 April 2051 at 19:39 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 May 2051 at 06:46 in ♉ Taurus.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

2 days after previous South standstill on 29 April 2051 at 20:50 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.162°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.181° in the next northern standstill on 12 May 2051 at 15:20 in ♊ Gemini.